Tate believes any school that would commit 18 years of academic fraud, then spend millions to delay the case for years, deserves to win.

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North Carolina deserves the NCAA basketball championship.

Any institution that wants the title so badly that it would carry out 18 years of the worst academic fraud in NCAA history, and then spend millions to out-lawyer the NCAA governing body by delaying penalties for years, has earned it.

In a world built on honesty and fairness, the Tar Heels shouldn’t have been playing Villanova’s champions to the wire a year ago.

Fake classes were in full swing when Rashad McCants, Sean May and the Tar Heels defeated Illinois 75-70 in the 2005 title game, McCants making the Dean’s List that year with sham classes and term papers written by tutors.

The school ultimately conceded that roughly 2,000 student-athletes received phony grades as a means of keeping them eligible … an underground fact that for years attracted many more budding super-stars to the campus.

We can wring our hands about illegal financial benefits for athletes and families, and we know these activities are widespread, but nothing keeps the athletes coming like the inside word that they’ll receive A’s without studying or even attending class.

Unless he gets stuck in one of Meeks forehead wrinkles first. He is big enough it should be harder for him to go over the back on him more than 10 times. Although I suspect the refs will have him with 3 fouls by the 10 minute mark.

CHAPEL HILL Andre Smith at least tried something different, even if it couldn’t have backfired any more spectacularly on him or North Carolina.

The UNC linebacker promised Saturday wouldn’t turn into the “Lamar Jackson Show,” only for his words to become an all-you-can-eat buffet.

“He’s not going to beat us,” Smith said Wednesday. (He did.)

“We’re just going to stop anything that he tries to do.” (They didn’t.)

“He’s not going to be able to run on us, we have everything solidified with that.” (He was, and they did not.)

It was the Lamar Jackson Show from start to finish – 525 yards of offense and six touchdowns – as Jackson set a record for yardage by an opposing player against the Tar Heels in a 47-35 Louisville win.

So not only did North Carolina fail to stop anything last year’s Heisman Trophy winner tried to do, North Carolina failed to stop what he tried to do worse than it had against any previous opponent in school history."

"The Tar Heels (1-5, 0-4 ACC) either punted or turned the ball over on 12 of its first 13 drives. Eight of those drives ended in a three-and-out. Two ended in a turnover. And one drive ended in a safety with just 28 seconds left in the first half."